2022
Article from ESD member Dr. Andreas Frömelt among top downloaded papers
Dr. Andreas Frömelt has been awarded by Journal of Industrial Ecology, since his article about machine learning based modeling of households is among the top downloaded papers from January 2019 to December 2020.
We should recycle more plastics, but maybe not all of them
A recycling rate for plastic packaging of 55% is required by EU legislation in 2030. Whether we can reach this goal and other questions around how circular plastics can be were debated in a discussion round in Vienna (in German), moderated by ESD PhD student Magdalena Klotz.
Plastic food packaging has problems with chemicals - but some other advantages
ESD researcher Helene Wiesinger gave a public lecture (in German) on the advantages and disadvantages of plastic food packaging at the Treffpunkt Science City, ETH Zurich’s public science programme.
Sometimes only 20 model inputs out of few hundreds of thousands drive most of the uncertainty in life cycle assessment models
This new ESD-PSI study published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal has introduced a novel global sensitivity analysis (GSA) protocol that can aid in increasing robustness of life cycle assessment (LCA) results by improving data quality of only a tiny fraction of datasets. On the example of impacts from Swiss household consumption, we show how to efficiently conduct GSA for complete background LCA models, and consistently validate results.